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Hundested strand 14.5

#5726 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇩🇰 Denmark · Hovedstaden · near Hillerød

Needs the right swell, wind is the enemy here, thick rubber.

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Hundested strand, Denmark
Photo: Øyvind Holmstad · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Surf score14.5 /100
Surfable days38% of the year
Clean days0% groundswell + friendly wind
Groundswell0% period 11 s+
Typical size0.5 m 1.6 ft median
Water11°C a 5/4 with boots and hood

Best time to surf Hundested strand

It rarely works. The nearest airport is CPH (63 km) and the nearest town is Hillerød (30 km).

MonthSurfableCleanSizeWaterSuit
Jan51%0%0.6 m3°C6/5
Feb54%0%0.6 m2°C6/5
Mar33%0%0.5 m3°C6/5
Apr33%0%0.4 m8°C6/5
May32%0%0.4 m13°C5/4
Jun18%0%0.4 m16°C3/2
Jul34%0%0.4 m19°C2mm
Aug23%0%0.4 m19°C3/2
Sep41%0%0.5 m17°C3/2
Oct47%0%0.6 m13°C5/4
Nov42%0%0.5 m9°C6/5
Dec44%0%0.6 m6°C6/5

What is under Hundested strand

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor drops to 70 m. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 1241 m against 70 m, deep enough to bend swell onto one peak instead of spreading it along the beach.

Depth 8 km out70 m
Depth 4 km out37 m
Channel beside it1241 m

Measured, not estimated: NOAA ETOPO 2022 global relief at 15 arc-seconds, about 460 m per cell, sampled along this spot’s own swell window. At that scale the survey sees passes and channels; it cannot see a reef ledge, so nothing here is said about how the wave breaks.

Why 14.5

Seven parts, each normalised 0 to 1 and multiplied by its weight; the sum is scaled so the best spot in the world scores 100. Wave quality and what the spot does on its best days carry more than half of it, which is what separates this from a ranking of where the water is warm.

Wave quality 34.7%
2.9
Best days 22.4%
1.8
Clean days 18.4%
0.0
Consistency 10.2%
3.9
Season spread 4.1%
0.4
Water comfort 6.1%
0.0
Access 4.1%
3.6

The detail

Faces 280° with 56% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 39% of days. Mean peak period 3.8 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 1.1 m, with a peak period of 5 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 54%. Months that work: 2 of 12. Coordinates 55.968, 11.847 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Living here
€1,880/ month
typically €1,650 – €2,110
Rent, one bedroom€990
Groceries€395
Eating out€225
Getting around€130
Phone + internet€140
Renting by the month, cooking most days, local transport.
One month here
€3,670/ month
typically €3,230 – €4,110
Somewhere to stay€2,160
Eating out€770
Car, transfers, fuel€500
Data + extras€235
Short stays, eating out, a car or transfers.
49% cheaper if you live here instead of visiting

Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Denmark (2025, United States = 1.00) applied to a fixed surfer basket, then adjusted for how remote the spot is. Your own number moves with the season and how you live.

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